◦
Paull F. Baum,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Analytical List of Manuscripts in the
Duke University Library
(1931), 14-16, 56-65
◦ Frances Winwar, “Dante Gabriel's
or William Michael's?” (March 1933), 312-315
◦
Paull F. Baum,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Analytical List of Manuscripts in the
Duke University Library
(1931), 14-16, 56-65
◦ Frances Winwar, “Dante Gabriel's
or William Michael's?” (March 1933), 312-315
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Duke University corrected manuscript
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This is one of the group of sonnets that DGR and WMR wrote to rhymes set by each other. The brothers played this verse game between 1847-1849, and principally in 1848. The rule was that the sonnet should be written quickly, in five to ten minutes (see 1911, pages 673-674 ). Twenty-six survive, fourteen of which were published by WMR in his edition of 1911, pages 263-267 . Paull Franklin Baum published the rest in his Analytical List of Manuscripts in the Duke University Library, 56-65 among which was this poem.
Although all of the sonnets first published by Baum are in DGR's autograph, Frances Winwar has argued that a number of them are not DGR's but WMR's. This is one of the nine Winwar assigns to WMR. But DGR's revisions to WMR's original sonnet in this case are so extensive that they amount to the composition of a new poem. The surviving manuscript preserves the texts that each brother wrote.
Printing History
First published by Baum in his Analytical List of Manuscripts in the Duke University Library (1931), 61-62 . He printed the heavily corrected manuscript text.